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News of the abandonment of a mother dog and her six puppies in a municipal park resulted in a number of calls to the newspaper from people hoping to adopt the animals.

This suggestion did not meet the approval of the mathematical physicists of his day, for it necessitated 22 the abandonment of the conceptions they had worked with, as well as the terminology which had been employed, and made it needful to reconstruct all their work to make it intelligible-a labour which was the more distasteful as it was forced upon them by one who, although expert enough in experimentation, was not a mathematician, and who boasted that the most complicated mathematical work he ever did was to turn the crank of a calculating machine; who did all his work, formed his conclusions, and then said-“The work is done; hand it over to the computers.

" "Yes; and shout on penny steamers, and brandish pint bottles of stout, and sing along the streets, in simple abandonment to Arcadian joy; and trample on flowers; and break pretty things for wantonness; and exercise a rude but effective wit, known among the ancients as Fescennine, upon passing ladies; and get drunk o' nights; and walk the streets with a pipe in your mouth.

The general agreement between the area in which we find the leaf-shaped swords, the area occupied by the Aborigines before the Sabine expedition, and the area of Q speech, suggests that these three are one especially as there is a progressive abandonment of the north-western portion and a movement towards the south-west near the mouth of the Tiber.

That the movements passed east and west is certain, for we find evidence of the abandonment of settled villages both in the Tripolje area and at Anau.

If between the fourth and thirteenth century-between the later Gallo-Roman glass and the enamelled glass of the Saracens-there is in our collections a gap representing nearly a thousand years, only sparingly filled up by a few rare examples, the immediate cause is to be found in the abandonment of the practice of cremation, and of the habit of burying objects of value with the deceased.

Certain defects which we note in the glass to which the Venetians applied their thick enamels may have been inseparably bound up with the use of these same enamels, and the impossibility of overcoming these defects may have been one of the causes of their abandonment and of the general adoption in their place of the painted decoration-mere thin skins of colour-which they were now able to apply to their white cristallo, the typical glass of Venice.

It cannot perhaps be said that the self-abandonment and self-forgetfulness, which seemed an essential condition of the full development of the other elevated impulses before noticed, characterise benevolent affection normally and permanently; as love, when a powerful emotion, seems naturally to involve a desire for reciprocated love, strong in proportion to the intensity of the emotion; and thus the consciousness of self and of one’s own pleasures and pains seems often heightened by the very intensity of the affection that binds one to others.

It is clear that a resolution made after deliberation, in accordance with our view of what is right, should not be abandoned or modified except deliberately-at least if time for fresh deliberation be allowed-: and the self-control required to resist impulses prompting to such abandonment or modification-which we may perhaps call Firmness,-is an indispensable auxiliary to Wisdom.

) that Kant regards it as a duty owed to oneself to speak the truth, because ‘a lie is an abandonment or, as it were, annihilation of the dignity of man.

Yet we leave such a dangerous class in the most complete abandonment.

And undoubtedly our sexual abuses are shameful, and shameful also is the barbaric tolerance of the masses regarding prostitution, seduction, illegitimacy and the abandonment of new-born children.

Confidence in himself, an equal and opposite power of abandonment and recuperation.

Poor Cathy, frightened from her little romance, had been considerably sadder and duller since its abandonment; and her father insisted on her reading less, and taking more exercise.

And now behold-anticipation and uncertainty and remorse at the abandonment of the old life-all was ending, and the new was beginning.

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